Saturable absorbers incorporating carbon nanotubes directly synthesized onto substrates and fibers and their application to mode-locked fiber lasers
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- 15 July 2004
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 29 (14) , 1581-1583
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.29.001581
Abstract
We present novel carbon-nanotube-based saturable absorbers. Using the low-temperature alcohol catalytic chemical-vapor deposition method, high-quality single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were directly synthesized on quartz substrates and fiber ends. We successfully applied the SWNTs to mode lock a fiber laser producing subpicosecond pulses at a 50-MHz repetition rate.Keywords
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